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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Défis textiles I // 2

The day I opened my parcel, I was totally taken by surprise. I don't know what I expected but for sure not a vintage tea towel. Staring at it I felt completely empty and clueless what to do with it. That night my thoughts circled around doing something along the theme of time (because of the calendar) or along the theme of language (because of the French and German language printed on it) or crafting a bread basket (to do something related to kitchen stuff). But all of this did not convince me and I let it sit for another day. I then started to look more at the colors than at the image. I thought of bleaching the whole thing hoping that the colors would fade away and render a more subtle color scheme. I really did not like what I got. This was the moment when I knew I simply wanted to try to transform this thing into a picture I would enjoy looking at.

I prepared paper templates to help me keep the measurements and audition the parts of the towel to use. I new now that I wanted a orange strip to the left, a blue over tan narrower strip next to it and a larger area composed of smaller bits to the right.